PAGE

Meaning of PAGE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a page of a website (= a single screen of writing, pictures etc on a website )

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The website only has three pages.

a word/page count (= of how many words or pages there are )

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Your computer can do an automatic word count.

contents page

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He cast his eye down the contents page .

page traffic

preceding chapter/paragraph/page etc

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the diagram in the preceding chapter

problem page

the bottom of the page/screen

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There should be a menu bar at the bottom of your screen.

three/six etc full days/years/pages etc

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We devote five full days a month to training.

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His pants rose a full three inches off his shoes.

title page

turn a/the page (= move a page in a book over so that you can read the next page )

White Pages

Yellow Pages

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

back

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The back page has a strip called Haggis, which is about a black highland terrier and his adventures.

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Check out the back pages for more information.

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The Arizona Daily Star carried one short blurb in the back pages , but that was it.

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Did you spot the Premier League faces in our back page picture?

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Take a look at the back page of your morning paper.

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A tear-off contribution form and group start-up strip on the back page were also popular.

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Unfortunately, the news was reported in the back pages .

blank

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Like an author, Eloise would write what she chose on the blank page , would turn Jenny into her own creation.

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She found black men impossible to draw or to paint; she could not bear to trace defeat on to blank pages .

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Couldn't have picked up the pen and opened the notebook and faced the blank page .

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Another strategy my children use is to keep their notebooks open to a blank page while reading one of their books.

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He'd been staring at the blank page in his typewriter and wondering where he could find the enthusiasm to write.

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There are no blank pages in his book.

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Just the type of blank page made to suit a man like him.

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Pointing to the initial blank page , I ask Tony what the title for his book will be.

following

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The charts: The charts on the following pages show the Pharmacy responses compared to those for the Unit as a whole.

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Their voices can be heard throughout the following pages , where I refer to them consistently by name.

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The following pages of Charts are designed to help you select a mortgage lender.

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Each has its good points, and each its disadvantages, as discussed on the following pages .

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On the following page are some examples of games played from the Child ego-state.

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See the following pages for detailed reports of the Division's progress.

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The nurse's main responsibilities with regard to breathing are set out in the following pages .

front

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The whole thing could catch fire all over the front pages Crocus List and all.

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The next day in the Tribune, there was my picture on the front page .

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But two and a half years later he was front page news.

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Dole, the Senate majority leader, on the front page .

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Web Trader seal of approval on your front page ?

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He whipped the lo October edition of the Sun out of his pocket and brandished the front page .

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Creed recognised him from the picture on the front page of that morning's Dispatch, poor quality though it had been.

full

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Your full page photograph has no doubt encouraged many young and impressionable fans of Happy Mondays to go out and have children.

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Perhaps because you see the full page instead of one section at a time.

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For more details take a look at our full review on page 56.

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Banner a large headline or title extending across the full page width.

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It takes about a minute to print a full A4 page .

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Each section is preceded by a full page black-and-white design, its title written in Minton's characterful script.

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There are also plans for full page planning and, later, makeup to be integrated into the system.

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This makes a change from the 1989/90 accounts which contained a full page of audit qualifications.

opposite

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The drawing on the opposite page shows a mains stopcock with a draincock fitted above.

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As shown in the figure on the opposite page , these new elements represent the results that each technique tends to yield.

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Chanel, on the opposite page , was three months old.

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Dust lightly with a little icing sugar before serving. Opposite page , left, Ham and onion load and All-in-one breakfast.

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Write each one down on a table like the one on the opposite page .

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A typical ideal personnel specification might look like the table on the opposite page .

■ NOUN

home

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Or go direct to one of the alternative browsers' home pages .

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Researching this piece online I came across the Chronicle home page that contained a recorded message by Caen.

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Community links Many schools are beginning to realize that a home page also can be a link to their communities.

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Thomas Paine would have had an amazing home page .

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More and more schools have begun posting their own home pages on the World Wide Web.

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I read your article on NaviPress and it looks like a great way to start a home page .

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You can also receive an introduction to Web publishing that starts you well on the way to creating your own home page .

printer

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If only a single copy is needed then it is logical to produce it on the page printer .

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Laser printers , for example, are page printers.

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The future of page printers is fairly obvious.

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When dealing with the relatively simple world of a 300dpi page printer this is little trouble.

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It is the LaserWriter, a Canon-derived page printer equipped with a complex processing system licensed from Adobe.

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As I have already indicated in the main text of this article, there are real users of high resolution page printers .

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A basic page printer has a rated life.

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Currently graphics screens reproduce 60 to 100dpi, most page printers work at 300dpi and typesetting systems operate at 1,000dpi and above.

title

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Opposite the title page was a picture of the kneeling King exchanging his royal crown for a crown of thorns.

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I hated his books, which I could not understand and on whose title pages his name had been stamped.

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The Select Songs were printed very early: their title page states that they were sold in the theatre as well as in shops.

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Our librarian passed me the disk ready for review, I ran it and nervously waited for the title page .

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Main line: 1 title page , 5 sheets of plans, 5 sheets sections, 1 sheet cross-sections.

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On the back of the title page you will find reference to the publishing history of the book.

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Usually found on the back of the title page .

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There was a title page decorated with red, green and blue Biro.

web

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Everyone hates having their screen fill with a bunch of Web pages they didn't ask for. 11.

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I thought that I would read your Web page for the yearlong Computers-101 course.

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Save an Image, movie, or sound tile Web pages often display reduced images.

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For one thing, thousands of new Web pages are added to the Internet every day.

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You might have no interest in building a fancy themed site or even learning anything about creating Web pages .

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Microsoft already makes a product called Internet Assistant for use in designing individual web pages .

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For more on Web page design, see p.239.

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The cost of a Web page for individuals or organizations can vary dramatically.

■ VERB

fill

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You might fill half a page or a dozen pages before you come to a standstill.

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News of, and speculation about, the creature fills the pages of local newspapers and dominates the airwaves.

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I could fill an eight-page supplement with their letters.

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Sometimes the questioning went on for several days, and always the words were transcribed to fill hundreds of pages of transcript.

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I could fill pages and pages with lists of self-help groups that have grown out of this discovered energy.

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Soon Evan had filled his notebook page with memories of diving under the water to get a closer look at the boat.

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A droll comment from time to time enlivens the dry information that fills most of the pages of a typical register.

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After filling several notebook pages with black scrawl, I stopped the recorder.

flick

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He flicked through the pages of his appointments diary, which were as ever blank.

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During debates on gravel extraction he could be seen flicking through its pages .

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Dougal flicked through the pages , dipping into the typed sections; the handwritten portions could wait.

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As I flicked through the pages one Friday evening an advertisement caught my eye.

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He placed the sketch-pad on his knees, flicked open the first page and began to draw.

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He drew out the phrase book and flicked through the pages .

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Dudek flicked over the pages , found them to be a little better, but still somewhat hum-drum.

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Pick up something to read and look at it carefully, not frantically flicking through the pages .

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Here they wrote up their interviews and observations, edited them, created artwork and designed and printed their pages .

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The command 8-will print from page 8 to the end of the text.

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What the wine experts are drinking right now Print out these pages and pop them in your handbag.

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Line formatting affects the placement of entire paragraphs on the screen and on the printed page .

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The Windows driver provides a wide range of facilities, including laying down watermarks and printing multiple pages per sheet.

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One was its bit-mapped display, allowing for the flexibility of type and graphics that one gets from the printed page .

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Taking a deep breath we elected to go the whole hog and print 16 pages .

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WordPerfect will print those pages of the document.

read

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Another girl could read a whole page of a newspaper and immediately repeat it.

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I thought that I would read your Web page for the yearlong Computers-101 course.

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On reading through these pages you will be convinced that this is exactly the way in which the things could work well.

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But is everyone reading from the same page ?

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You can read his selection on page 14.

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And leafing through the book, I read the page numbers out loud, too.

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He had tried reading isolated pages - reading three pages, skipping three, and then reading four.

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I was just going to do my duty, read a few pages and get back to the dancing.

see

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For guidance on verbal behaviours see page 170.

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But apple or apricot butters do not contain any real butter. See page 355 for a description of fruit butters.

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Visitor Centre: daily 9-5. See Handbook page i88.

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The mayor was in Sacramento and did not see the new pages .

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For details, see the facing page .

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Here they operate in very different surroundings to Blackpool's, as seen on this page: - Anti-clockwise: 1.

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For details of child reductions see page 9.

show

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I showed him the relevant page of my guide-book.

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Every once in a while she would show me the page and ask where she should stop a sentence.

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Directors Details of the directors of the company are shown on pages 8 and 9.

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Full details of how to go about it are shown on page 7.

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Details and prices of our pre-bookable excursions from Scheffau are shown on page 8-9.

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All the details are shown on page 104.

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No attempt is made to hyphenate, justify or show the final page layout.

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Experience is likely to show that this optional page is rarely completed because the extra costs have to be passed on to clients.

turn

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She leans over his shoulder to follow the music; her hand brushes his arm when she turns a page .

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Lawton turned the page of his pocket edition of Blake.

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Ezra turned the page and scanned the chapter titles down.

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She is leaning forward and turning the pages of a magazine with the clumsy movements of a four-year-old child.

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They turn quickly to the page she wants.

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One was turning the pages of an old copy of Hotel &038; Caterer, the other was looking out of the window.

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They have been ready for two seasons to turn the page and begin a new era without him.

write

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But when Nik Cohn walks down Broadway he writes 363 pages about it.

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In advance he had prepared a message and written a list of page numbers inside the front cover.

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Booze and babes May I offer a piece of advice to Carrie Schlegel and other precocious kids writing to your letters page ?

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They had all written pages and pages of vignettes about their lives.

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And today's Government privatisation announcement writes another page into the history of Belfast International Airport.

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Roiphe writes two pages before the book ends.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

(the) Yellow Pages

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Brokers are listed in the Yellow Pages and also advertise in newspapers.

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Forget about your fingers doing the walking through the Yellow Pages.

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He needed blocks to finish some hat bodies and scoured the Yellow Pages for resources.

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Look for names in the Yellow Pages or the Hollis Annual.

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Sdme provide twenty-dollars-off coupons in the Yellow Pages.

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To find the nearest branch look in their Yellow Pages, Gelbe Seiten.

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We usually start by looking through the Yellow Pages and ringing up companies to ask if they will give donations and prizes.

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You will find them listed in the Yellow Pages.

double-page spread/centre spread

make the papers/headlines/front page etc

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And the story made the front pages.

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Not surprisingly, the story made the front page of the New York Times and many other papers.

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Print reporters know their stories stand a better chance of making the front page.

op-ed page/article

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Unbooks do not even have the substance of a solid op-ed page article, which usually runs 1 / 100 as long.

the White Pages

the following afternoon/month/page/chapter etc

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And she had returned the following afternoon, carrying Timmy on her hip and the rest of her possessions in a backpack.

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Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father's arm.

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Expansion and application of some of those ideas will be pursued in the following chapters.

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I describe experiments making use of this criterion in the following chapter.

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In the following chapters, I emphasize what can be done, not what will be done.

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The receiving company went into liquidation the following month.

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We examine these recurrent themes in the managers' first-year biographies in the following pages.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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How many pages are we supposed to read?

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See pages 27-30 for club listings.

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The last page of the book is missing.

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What page is the picture on?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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I shall return to this point at the end of the chapter on page 35.

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In 1988 there is to be a new system of personal pensions, explained on page 76.

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It is the most comprehensive of the road test series and is also one of the first to feature colour pages.

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One day she wakes up, sees all that creepiness splashed across the front page .

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Summarize your essential points on one page .

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The readers' response: a big sigh and a rustle as they turn the page .

II. verb